If You Tell a Lie

by Lucinda Berry

Do you know how much work it takes to pretend like you’re fine every day? To be the sunshine when you’re really the darkness?

It was weird what happened inside of you once you knew you were capable of murder. It changed you forever in a way that you could never come back from. It was just like anything else: after you’d crossed over a line once, it was easier to cross over a second time.